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Re: I want you to help me pick five books to read. Danae al'Thor Send a noteboard - 10/10/2010 06:50:52 PM
I would like to know your (current) favourites:


1. Metafiction.

Nothing beats the classics. The Arabian Nights, Slaughterhouse 5, The Hitchhikers' Guides to the Galaxy, The World Acc. to Garp, Everything is Illuminated, Orlando:A biography...they're all metafictional in some degree.

Be hardcore and read If on a winter's night a traveller OR Cloud Atlas
2. Playwright.

Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - which is metafictional too! OR Arthur Miller's The Crucible
3. Absurdist.

Camus' Plague, Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle OR Gogol's The Nose.

4. Cyberpunk.

Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon - someone help me, this IS cyberpunk, right? Or Cryptonomicon? I'm a bit lost for this.

5. Modernist.

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse OR Orlando OR Mrs. Dalloway; Katherine Mansfield's Short fiction - any collection will do, really but The Garden Party might be most, er, representative? Again, someone who knows what they are talking about come and help me.
Djuna Barne's Nightwood.

These are some obvious, easy answers. Hopefully more esoteric ones will shows up in other replies. Happy Reading!




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I want you to help me pick five books to read. (beat.) - 10/10/2010 04:45:52 PM 781 Views
Re: I want you to help me pick five books to read. Danae al'Thor - 10/10/2010 06:50:52 PM 710 Views
NIGHTWOOD. *NM* (beat.) - 14/10/2010 06:19:59 PM 266 Views
*takes full credit* Camilla - 14/10/2010 10:08:44 PM 569 Views
Re: I want you to help me pick five books to read. Camilla - 10/10/2010 09:21:54 PM 547 Views
Re: I haven't read Travesties. Is it better than his other stuff? Danae al'Thor - 10/10/2010 09:29:18 PM 522 Views
Yes Camilla - 10/10/2010 09:32:24 PM 517 Views
Whoa, we have exactly the same favourites. oO´ (beat.) - 14/10/2010 06:10:44 PM 544 Views
Good taste and all Camilla - 14/10/2010 06:35:10 PM 517 Views
From you, too; another dramatist. (beat.) - 17/10/2010 12:02:17 PM 533 Views
~totally copies other people~ Rebekah - 10/10/2010 10:15:19 PM 564 Views
Re: I completely forgot about Flannery O'Connor! Danae al'Thor - 10/10/2010 11:02:54 PM 558 Views
Rebekah - 14/10/2010 06:53:24 PM 561 Views
Well all you do is copy people! (beat.) - 17/10/2010 11:57:23 AM 595 Views
Re: Well all you do is copy people! Camilla - 17/10/2010 01:09:13 PM 539 Views
Aphra Behn is new. Thanks! *NM* (beat.) - 20/10/2010 10:26:48 AM 245 Views
She is interesting Camilla - 20/10/2010 12:26:58 PM 534 Views
Aw. But still, "Behn worked for Charles II as a spy during the outset of the Second Dutch War [...]" (beat.) - 20/10/2010 02:27:41 PM 514 Views
Indeed. *NM* Camilla - 20/10/2010 02:48:45 PM 236 Views
Hrmm... Larry - 10/10/2010 10:32:49 PM 641 Views
All of them are unfamiliar to me. Great! *NM* (beat.) - 14/10/2010 06:13:36 PM 260 Views
Huh. nossy - 11/10/2010 04:40:56 AM 588 Views
Steinbeck is boring! I will not read anything you recommend! (beat.) - 14/10/2010 06:15:17 PM 494 Views
*5* Kuke - 11/10/2010 12:36:09 PM 656 Views
I DONT TRUST U & UR WEERD TASTES. (beat.) - 14/10/2010 06:21:55 PM 511 Views
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